8 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



longest ; tail rather long, graduated, feeble ; tarsus long, smooth ; 

 toes short ; nails compressed and acute, hind toe stout ; outer toe 

 slightly longer than the inner. 



This remarkable group of small birds cannot, I think, be sepa- 

 rated from the last series, as is done by Gray and others, for they 

 are distinctly connected to Paradox or nis by Chleuasicus. Gray, 

 Horsfield, and Blyth, however, agree in placing them among the 

 Pariiue, near the long-tailed Tit-mouse and Panurus biarmicus, as 

 does Hodgson, though he asserts their relationship with Ileteromor- 

 pha, &g. But it appears to me questionable if the bearded 

 Tit-mouse really belongs to the Parina, for it differs from them 

 by its short wings, large legs and feet, short tumid bill, and 

 dense plumage ; and, in these points, certainly agrees with 

 Suthora. Bonaparte, indeed, in his Conspectus, placed Suthora 

 among his Leiotrichince, with Paradoxornis and Conostoma. 



378. Sutliora nipalensis, Hodgson. 



Ind. Rev. 2, p. 32— Blyth, Cat. 530— IIorsf., Cat. 613.— 

 Temnoris atrifrons, Hodgs., P. Z. S., 1845 — Gould, Birds of 

 Asia, pi. upper figure — Suthora, Nipal. 



The Black-fronted Tit-Thrush. 



Descr. — Crown bright fulvous, passing to duller fulvous on the 

 back ; forehead, and a broad streak over the eyes to the nape, 

 black ; lores and sides of the face, with the plumes growing from 

 the base of the lower mandible, pure white ; ear-coverts, and a 

 spot behind the eye, below the black streak, bright fulvous ; below 

 the ear-coverts, and the sides of the neck, pure ash, paler on the 

 breast, and passing to white on the abdomen; chin and throat 

 black, with whitish margins ; wings dark brown, the first two or 

 three quills edged with white, the next two or three with rufous, 

 and the remainder edged throughout their entire length with the 

 same colour, but of a deeper hue ; tail bright cinnamon brown, 

 edged externally with rufous ; the inner webs dusky. 



Bill black, bluish at the base ; legs fleshy white ; irides brown. 

 Length A\ inches ; wing 2 ; tail 2^ ; bill \ ; tarsus f . 



